Improved steam and gas-fife hook



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CHARLES B. L`oNe, 0E WORCESTER,MAssAoHUsETrs,.ASsIGNoE 'ro EIM- sELE AND JONATHAN LUTHER., or SAME PLAGE.

Letters Patent No. 104,326, dated .Tune 14, 1870.

IMPROVED STEAM AND GAS-PIPE HOOK,

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part oi' the seme.

To allv whom it tmay concern:

hooks from plate-iron struck with dies, and formed with a former, thereby producing a hook cheaper and` superior to the cast-iron hook now in use.

To enable others skilled in -t-he art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In the drawingp Figure l represents the appearance of the iron as itreceives the die under the press; y

Figure 2 represents the tongue B struck ont in readiness'or' the former which is to form the hook G.

Figure 3 represents the hooks C when finished rend y for use.

I take a plate of wroughtiron of suitable width and thickness, cnt it up intolengths for one or more hooks, as may b e Wanted, and then c-ut the tongue B under a die, asin figs. 1 and 2, and then, by a simple process with a former, the tongue B is formed into' a hook, as in iig. 3, letters C C C C C C. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

Ihe hooks C, made substantially as herein described, as a new artieleof manufacture and merchan dize. Worcester, Massachusetts, October 17,1868.

CHARLES B. LONG. [L s] Witnesses: v

H. K. MERRIFIELD, F. A. GASKILL. 

